CURRENT MISSION

1/3 life crisis

ABOUT ME

Nonprofit professional, gay, all-around nerd. Looking to explore the USA and the world.

Interests

Comic books, video games, sci-fi, movies, politics, spicy food, craft beer, and ice cream

• books
• dining
• beer
• politics
• movies
• video games

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Shock Doctrine, The Sandman, American Gods, and anything else by Neil Gaiman, The Invisibles, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and anything else by Alan Moore, anything by Grant Morrison, Bone, Harry Potter, Dark Tower series, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Calvin & Hobbes (god, I miss Bill Watterson), Flicker, The Prestige, Foucault's Pendulum, Sewer, Gas, Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, Jennifer Government, Age of Betrayal, Cloud Atlas, House of Leaves, Zeroville, Perdido Street Station, The City and the City, Kraken, Embassytown, Gay New York, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Great Derangement; not really books, but I don't know what I'd do without the host of political and pop-culture blogs I read

Movies: Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Gattaca, The Terminator, The Rapture, Aliens, Alien, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Killer, Hard Boiled, The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds, Se7en, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, My Neighbor Totoro, Predator, This is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, Airplane, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, Chris Cunningham music videos, Videodrome, The Fly, Safe, Sin City, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Inception, Cinema Paradiso, Ed Wood, Batman & Robin (it's just awesomely bad), Troll 2 (ditto), The Room (again), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Ghostbusters, Gremlins 2, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A History of Violence, pretty much anything by Pixar or Aardman, Borat, The Prestige, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Hot Fuzz, Zodiac, Boogie Nights, Stardust, RoboCop, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Burn After Reading, Let the Right One In, Duplicity, Where the Wild Things Are, Days of Heaven, The Social Network, Four Lions, Black Swan, I Am Love, The Stunt Man, The Thin Red Line, Holy Motors, Cloud Atlas, Upstream Color, The Act of Killing, Gravity

TV Shows: Arrested Development (RIP), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Lost, Wonder Showzen, Battlestar Galactica, The Venture Bros., Frisky Dingo, The Soup, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Community, Game of Thrones, Modern Family, Archer, Brasseye, Screenwipe, Newswipe, How TV Ruined Your Life - yeah, I love Charlie Brooker, , Revenge, Veep, The Thick of It, Nathan for You, The Americans, Orphan Black, Review, Rick and Morty

Music: The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Neil Young, U2, Led Zeppelin David Bowie, Queen, The Clash, Michael Jackson, Prince, various cheesy 80s stuff, New Order, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Jim Steinman and similar bombast, Annie, Robyn, Royksopp

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

San Francisco's Dolores Park on a beautiful day